many lady lumps said you are on your own here franky i am here to tell you this aint true i will always support those who fight against the use of progs in chess yours in honourable play Talfan 1 supporter of the Anti-Prog League

yep...so ur all cheating v me...:(....just want cc to create a aid free optiin...most people who chat on here r avid chess fans..and as such use a db..the silent majority just play chess

I think one of the things I like about online chess is that access to the opening book neutralizes the advantage of those people who just spend all their time memorizing a ton of opening lines and traps. Isn't that just as cheesy? Bobby Fisher complained that chess was decending into rote memorization of opening lines and it was killing 'real chess'. That's why he created 960, which bypasses the opening altogether - you could give that a try?

Btw, most 'real chess' is played in the middlegame and endgame, not the opening ...

Look, frankyy217, if you think I am going to put my dogeared 11th edition of MCO away when I play Turn-based Chess, well I am not. And, anyhow it is written in Code, which you would not know how to translate, and so you could never prove it. And besides, it has lines which have become "obsolete" and they are the ones that often win!

It isn't cheating since there are countless free databases that everyone has access too. If boxer A and boxer B both put metal in their gloves then are they still cheating? According to official rules yes, but practically they're leveling the playing field... but still think they're cheating as they're unaware the other is using the same dirty tactic. It's different because a boxing federation can check gloves before a match, a chess server can't tell your memory apart from a book. It wouldn't be fair to someone who studied an opening to be flagged as a cheater.